Meaning of "harvest" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HARVEST

Old English hærfest; related to Old Norse harfr harrow, Old High German herbist autumn, Latin carpere to pluck, Greek karpos fruit, Sanskrit krpāna shears.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF HARVEST

harvest  [ˈhɑːvɪst]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARVEST

Harvest is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb harvest in English.

WHAT DOES HARVEST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Harvest

Harvest is the process of gathering mature crops from the fields. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulse for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper. The harvest marks the end of the growing season, or the growing cycle for a particular crop, and social importance of this event makes it the focus of seasonal celebrations such as a harvest festival, found in many religions. On smaller farms with minimal mechanization, harvesting is the most labor-intensive activity of the growing season. On large, mechanized farms, harvesting utilizes the most expensive and sophisticated farm machinery, like the combine harvester. Harvesting in general usage includes an immediate post-harvest handling, all of the actions taken immediately after removing the crop—cooling, sorting, cleaning, packing—up to the point of further on-farm processing, or shipping to the wholesale or consumer market.

Definition of harvest in the English dictionary

The first definition of harvest in the dictionary is the gathering of a ripened crop. Other definition of harvest is the crop itself or the yield from it in a single growing season. Harvest is also the season for gathering crops.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HARVEST

PRESENT

Present

I harvest

you harvest

he/she/it harvests

we harvest

you harvest

they harvest

Present continuous

I am harvesting

you are harvesting

he/she/it is harvesting

we are harvesting

you are harvesting

they are harvesting

Present perfect

I have harvested

you have harvested

he/she/it has harvested

we have harvested

you have harvested

they have harvested

Present perfect continuous

I have been harvesting

you have been harvesting

he/she/it has been harvesting

we have been harvesting

you have been harvesting

they have been harvesting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I harvested

you harvested

he/she/it harvested

we harvested

you harvested

they harvested

Past continuous

I was harvesting

you were harvesting

he/she/it was harvesting

we were harvesting

you were harvesting

they were harvesting

Past perfect

I had harvested

you had harvested

he/she/it had harvested

we had harvested

you had harvested

they had harvested

Past perfect continuous

I had been harvesting

you had been harvesting

he/she/it had been harvesting

we had been harvesting

you had been harvesting

they had been harvesting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will harvest

you will harvest

he/she/it will harvest

we will harvest

you will harvest

they will harvest

Future continuous

I will be harvesting

you will be harvesting

he/she/it will be harvesting

we will be harvesting

you will be harvesting

they will be harvesting

Future perfect

I will have harvested

you will have harvested

he/she/it will have harvested

we will have harvested

you will have harvested

they will have harvested

Future perfect continuous

I will have been harvesting

you will have been harvesting

he/she/it will have been harvesting

we will have been harvesting

you will have been harvesting

they will have been harvesting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would harvest

you would harvest

he/she/it would harvest

we would harvest

you would harvest

they would harvest

Conditional continuous

I would be harvesting

you would be harvesting

he/she/it would be harvesting

we would be harvesting

you would be harvesting

they would be harvesting

Conditional perfect

I would have harvest

you would have harvest

he/she/it would have harvest

we would have harvest

you would have harvest

they would have harvest

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been harvesting

you would have been harvesting

he/she/it would have been harvesting

we would have been harvesting

you would have been harvesting

they would have been harvesting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you harvest
we let´s harvest
you harvest

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to harvest

Past participle

harvested

Present Participle

harvesting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «HARVEST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «harvest» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of harvest

accumulate · acquire · amass · bring in · collect · collecting · consequence · crop · earn · effect · fruition · gain · garner · gather · gathering · get · harvesting · obtain · pick · picking · pluck · produce · product · reap · reaping · result · return · yield

TRANSLATION OF HARVEST

Find out the translation of harvest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of harvest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «harvest» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 收获
• Translator English - Spanish: cosecha
• English: harvest
• Translator English - Hindi: फसल
• Translator English - Arabic: حَصَاد
• Translator English - Russian: сбор урожая
• Translator English - Portuguese: colheita
• Translator English - Bengali: ফসল
• Translator English - French: récolte
• Translator English - Malay: Tuaian
• Translator English - German: Ernte
• Translator English - Japanese: 収穫
• Translator English - Korean: 수확
• Translator English - Javanese: Panen
• Translator English - Vietnamese: vụ thu hoạch
• Translator English - Tamil: அறுவடை
• Translator English - Marathi: कापणी
• Translator English - Turkish: hasat
• Translator English - Italian: raccolto
• Translator English - Polish: żniwa
• Translator English - Ukrainian: врожай
• Translator English - Romanian: recoltă
• Translator English - Greek: συγκομιδή
• Translator English - Afrikaans: oes
• Translator English - Swedish: skörd
• Translator English - Norwegian: innhøsting

10 QUOTES WITH «HARVEST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word harvest.

1

James Allen

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

2

James Allen

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

3

Ibrahim Babangida

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

4

Liberty Hyde Bailey

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

5

Rosecrans Baldwin

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

6

Roy Bean

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

7

Thomas Becket

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

8

John Betjeman

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

9

William Blake

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

10

Kit Bond

America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARVEST»

Discover the use of harvest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to harvest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Harvest: A Novel

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their ...

Jim Crace, 2013

Harvest

Medical resident Dr. Abby Matteo is elated when the elite cardiac transplant team at Boston's Bayside Hospital taps her as a potential recruit.

Tess Gerritsen, 2010

Bitter Harvest: A Womans Fury A Mothers Sacrifice

Piece by piece, Ann Rule digs beneath this placid Midwestern facade to unveil a disturbing portrait of strangely troubled marriages, infidelity, desperation, suicide, and escalating acts of revenge that forever changed dozens of lives.

Ann Rule, 2000

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home ...

If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you.

Eliot Coleman, 2012

Harvest

Harvest is a Marshall Cavendish publication.

George Ancona, 2001

Harvest

Gang Members, drug addicts, mental patients, and society's rejects. Chuck Smith's amazing story of Calvary Chapel and the unlikely leaders God called to minister His Gospel. Read the exciting story of how Calvary Chapel has grown.

Chuck Smith, Tal Brooke, 1993

Harvest

A satire on the export trade in live organs from the Third World to the West.

Manjula Padmanabhan, 2003

Deadly Harvest

Chief Inspector Jane Honeywell is a city detective in a sleepy country town who wonders why she's moved there.

Carolyn Walker, 2011

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

A devastating expose of what the globalized agricultural industry is doing to our land and our food.

Vandana Shiva, 2000

Harvest of Rubies

The prophet Nehemiah's cousin can speak numerous languages, keep complex accounts, write on rolls of parchment and tablets of clay, and solve great mysteries.

Tessa Afshar, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARVEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term harvest is used in the context of the following news items.

Good yields expected as oilseed rape harvest set to kick off …

Hopes are rising for above-average oilseed rape yields after a generally good growing season, with harvesting set to kick off in earnest this ... «FarmersWeekly, Jul 15»

Harvest hosting Calif. vineyard for wine dinner Wednesday

Oro Valley's Harvest Restaurant is teaming up with pioneering Sonoma, California, vineyard Rodney Strong for a wine dinner Wednesday. «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»

Harvest at Homestead Manor officially opens - The Tennessean

Thompson's Station's new farm-to-fork restaurant Harvest has officially opened. The restaurant in Homestead Manor opened Sunday with tours, ... «The Tennessean, Jul 15»

Great Harvest Bread to close - Argus Leader

Great Harvest Bread Co. is closing its Sioux Falls store. The bread store opened at 57th Street and Louise Avenue almost six years ago. «Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Jul 15»

How to Harvest a Library in Just 100 Years | Atlas Obscura

Or you could plant your own forest, let it grow for 100 years, and then harvest the trees for the pages of an anthology. Katie Paterson, a Scottish ... «Atlas Obscura, Jul 15»

Photos: Barley, bale art and toy combines - harvest begins - Farmers …

Harvest is underway for some farmers in the south east of England, with the first winter barley being cut and some areas beginning on oilseed ... «FarmersWeekly, Jul 15»

Winter wheat harvest getting underway in South Dakota | News …

In this Sunday, July 12, 2015 photo, winter wheat grows in a field near Presho, S.D. The winter wheat harvest is underway in South Dakota, but ... «News & Observer, Jul 15»

Over 50 Baseball: St. Mathias Harvest sweeps doubleheader …

ST. MATHIAS - The St. Mathias Harvest over 50 team swept a doubleheader from last year's state runner-up Crosstown Traffic in its home ... «Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Jul 15»

Dear Dr. Nucatola: I used to harvest fetal tissue for Planned …

You see, my former Planned Parenthood clinic used to harvest fetal body parts. I used to sift through their bodies and prepare them for transport ... «Lifesite, Jul 15»

Weather, disease affect winter wheat harvest, yields across Weld …

“Harvest action is picking up this week,” Cooksey said. “We started in on Saturday afternoon but had a little bit of a shower then and got rained ... «Greeley Tribune, Jul 15»